Taking Care
I don't take risks with my heart. I find recently I don't have the energy I used to have, but since my heart attack I've slowed down quite a bit and my wife doesn't get around as she used to do. Traveling these days requires more planning and work for both of us. We need more luggage to stay here for two months, or at least that was her plan. My thinking is still shorter, but we shall see. We don't have a car here, so all we do requires some planning.
I'm not worried about my heart as I have had no chest pain since my heart attack. But still I take care of my heart and listen to my body more. I'm getting plenty of exercise just going up and down a flight of stairs here. But we're both listening to what our bodies tell us. I have said my Spirit Guides will protect my heart. But what I've found most important is to listen to my heart. And I do.
The heart is about feelings and I have always had a tendency to think too much. Our hearts and minds are connected, but I've learned that Spirituality is more about feelings than it is about thinking. But even still I can find myself lost in thought. Actually, smoking a pipe is about both. It's why I can relax smoking a pipe. My thoughts often give me good feelings when I'm smoking a pipe.
Why is this? My pipe is a conduit to my Spirit Guides, but I can forget. It can take time for my thoughts and my feelings to work together and not against each other. I don't need a BP monitor to know what my heart is doing. I can feel my heart. My mind isn't the listening part of me. My heart listens. Heart and mind are delicately interwoven with each other.
I take meds to control my mind and then I take meds for my heart. I lose my balance when my mind isn't listening to my heart. When that happens, as it sometimes does, I need a quiet space to work to get them in sync. This is how I work to maintain balance in life. And I meditate to live only in the now. I know this sounds very Buddhist, but Buddhism mostly defines who I am.
A Buddhist probably will not smoke a pipe or use wine to calm one's Spirit, but I do both. This morning I am sitting on the deck thinking about what needs to be done around here while we are here. But not everything must be done today. We are planning our time here. But today I'm on the deck smoking my Dunhill pipe with some Captain Black Cherry working on getting my heart and mind in sync. I'm listening to my Spirit Guides and my heart comes first. I might think about what they say, but my feelings come first. Thank you for time and Peace to each one of you.
Dave
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